Hertha : title of one of Swinburne’s “Songs before Sunrise” which calls for emancipation of the soul under the influence of Hertha, earth-goddess, Spirit of Life.
... neck. Hertha, Hertha, here! ( to Hertha, as she enters ) O counsellor, art thou come? HERTHA I heard thee call. ASLAUG I called. Why did I call? See, Hertha, see How richly Norway's Eric buys his doom! HERTHA He gave thee this? It is a kingdom's price. ASLAUG A kingdom's price! the kingdom of the slain! A price to rid the nations of a god. O Hertha, what has... 570 Scene II Eric, Hertha. ERIC I sent for thee to know thy name and birth. HERTHA My name is Hertha and my birth too mean To utter before Norway's lord. ERIC Yet speak. HERTHA A Trondhjem peasant and a serving-girl Were parents to me. ERIC And from such a stock Thy beauty and thy wit and grace were born? HERTHA The Gods prodigiously sometimes... awhile; aim at his heart. Hertha, my subject, Aslaug, thou my thrall, Save, if he will, this life. SWEGN 'Tis thus we meet,— Were not the snows of Norway preferable, Daughter of Olaf? ASLAUG They were high, but cold. HERTHA Wilt thou not speak to Hertha, Swegn, my lord? SWEGN Hertha, alas, thy crooked scheming brain That brought us here. HERTHA The gods use instruments ...
... and his wife, Hertha, have come to Eric's Court at Yara disguised as dancing-girls. It is Aslaug's song that Eric heard at the opening of the play, although he doesn't actually see her then. Aslaug and Hertha have come no doubt to strike a blow on Swegn's behalf, but they are not quite of one mind, and indeed they seem almost to think at cross-purposes. The sober and calculating Hertha asks: ... and Norway strikes, My honour strikes... 63 "I strike tonight", she tells Hertha, as if this explains everything. To forestall possible tragedy, Hertha reveals the plot to Eric, but only after extracting a promise from him that he would forgive her, and spare Swegn and Aslaug. When Hertha says - King Eric, think me not thy enemy. What thou desirest, I desire yet more... with reindeer herding to survive, Or else a free and miserable death Together. 56 Hertha cannot help feeling that, but for Aslaug, Swegn might still be persuaded to come to terms with Eric: She is the fuel for my husband's soul To bum itself on a disastrous pyre. 57 Hertha almost decides to sacrifice Aslaug if that is the only way to win the peace for Swegn and Norway ...
... dissimilar. On one plane you may have a lot of attitudes — secular or sacred, sensual or spiritual; Swinburne's frenzy of the flesh in Anactoria and his part-Greek part-Norse part-Indian pantheism in Hertha function on an identical plane as regards essential qualities of sight, speech and rhythm. On one plane you may have also a host of styles: a colourful vitality whose impact is on what Sri Aurobindo ...
... highly wrought beauty, a marvellous music. There is often a captivatingly rich and sensuous appeal in his language and not unoften it rises to a splendid magnificence. Atalanta in Calydon, Dolores, Hertha, The Garden of Proserpine and numerous other poems with the same perfect workmanship will always stand among the consummate achievements of English poetry. He is at his best one of the great lyrical ...
... The more recently published Eric (1960) projects the struggle for power between Eric the elected King of Norway and Swegn, the Earl of Trondhjem. The latter's sister, Aslaug, and his wife, Hertha, come to Eric's court dressed as dancing girls, seeking an opportunity to kill him. But Eric and Aslaug themselves fall in love, and old hatred and new love fight for mastery in the heart and soul ...
... effect in the formation of my poetic style and its after-effects in that respect are not absent from Savitri . It is only Swinburne's early lyrical poems that exercised any power upon me, Dolores, Hertha, The Garden of Proserpine and others that rank among his best work,—also Atalanta in Calydon ; his later lyrical poetry I found too empty and his dramatic and narrative verse did not satisfy me. ...
... family head, and the halfmoon-shaped daksin-āgni 'southern fire' which is connected above all with the forefathers of the sacrificer". Then Parpola refers to an authority on the subject: "According to Hertha Krick, the first two form a pair and represent the Rgvedic tradition...." Thus, without any relation to the culture of Mehrgarh VIII and Sibri Damb, Pirak's most individual characteristic dissociates ...
... effect on the formation of my poetic style and its after-effects in that respect are not absent from Savitri. It is only Swinburne's early lyrical poems that exercised any power on me, Dolores, Hertha, The Garden of Proserpine and others that rank among his best work, — also Atalanta in Calydon, his later lyrical poetry I found too empty and his dramatic and narrative verse did not satisfy ...
... documents), 212-14 Kile Ghul Mohammad (KGM), 248, 249 Kish, 252 Koldihwa, 220, 221, 250, 278, 279 Kosambi, D.D., 187, 188, 197 Kotri, 189 Krick, Hertha, 230 Krishna, 200, 203, 240 krsndyasa, 236 Krumu, 284, 285 Kubhā, 284, 285 Kuhn, I., 406 Kulitara, 331 Kulliware, 251, 252 ...
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